DNA as a Storage Medium for Efficient and Reliable Cloud Data Archieving

Abstract

On Earth right now, there are about 10 trillion gigabytes of digital data, and every day, humans produce emails, photos, tweets, and other digital files that add up to another 2.5 million gigabytes of data.Much of this data is stored in enormous facilities known as exabyte data centers (an exabyte is 1 billion gigabytes), which can be the size of several football fields and cost around $1 billion to build and maintain.Demand for data storage is growing exponentially, but the capacity of existing storage media is not keeping up.This project enables molecular-level data storage into DNA molecules by leveraging biotechnology advances in synthesizing, manipulating and sequencing DNA to develop archival storage. Additionally an effective algorithm is introduced using deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-based cryptography to enhance data security while sharing the data over the cloud